Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend
Author(s):
Roper, Robert
Copyright: 2002, US
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 306, photo frontis, 13 color & 10 bw photos, blue cloth
Condition: dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine
Unsoeld was one of America’s great mountaineers. Roper focuses primarily on Unsoeld’s 1963 Everest and 1976 Nanda Devi expeditions. It was on the latter that Unsoeld lost his daughter Nanda Devi
Winner of the 2002 Boardman Tasker Mountaineering Literature Award.